When a human manipulates a tool, the person not just grasps it but also may manipulates it with hands and ngers, so that it change its orientation and position, or deform the shape. Furthermore, according to the state transition of such object, the next operation is performed as a larger scale process by a series of such operations. We discuss what is necessary to and how to describe such manipulation process and reproduce the behavior by a robot.

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Achieving smooth control transition between automated and manual driving is an important problem for highly automated vehicles. Many studies have been conducted to identify appropriate timing for a request to intervene (RTI) in automation-initiated authority transfer because appropriate reaction of the human driver to the RTI is necessary. Few studies, however, have investigated methods for transferring control authority in operational level. We propose a shared authority mode that connects the automated and human driving modes with a haptic shared control technique, achieving a smooth trading of control authority.

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Various technologies of control and intelligence are required according to the level of autonomous driving. In this paper, the related technologies, which have been developed for autonomous driving of automobiles, are provided. Current and future problems are also presented.

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Adaptive behaviors that living things show are thought to be generated from brain / body / environmental interactions. However, in order to understand this essence, it is necessary to pay attention to a minimalistic set of interactions of the brain, the body, and the environment, and to extract the underlying control structure there. Therefore, in this research, we propose a novel methodology to observe behavior by stepwise inhibiting (zombizing) the upper brain functions of living things.

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In this research, to investigate behavior and internal state changes during aggressive behavior of cricket, we are developing an small autonomous mobile robot which has a articial antennae and can intervene in aggressive behavior repeatedly.

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In this note, we introduce our developed centipede like multi-legged robot named i-CentiPot. This robot is developed for showing our concept shown in the CREST project. In the project, we show that the existence of Implicit control is important. i-CentiPot plays a part of anchor example for our project.

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Approaches for achieving super smart-energy management of transportation, electric and gas systems in cities are conducted from multiple points of views. In this paper, we examine the comprehensive modeling and optimizing approaches for the super smart societies by introducing mathematical programming techniques.

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As for power systems of the future, recent issue is no longer whether power systems will be transformed, but rather what kind of power systems these transformations will built. Therefore, it is necessary to operate the power systems different from the conventional systems, and also future power system analysis (supply and demand balance analysis) technology is required. In this paper, we introduce the model created for the analysis and discuss the influence of variable renewable energy resources on the operation of a future power system.

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In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for modeling of large-scale systems including power, transportation, economic, agriculture, water networks and etc. based on multi-dimensional hierarchical network systems, which can be an efficient framework for prediction and control in super smart society. We also discuss our future work for control of such large-scale systems in super smart society.

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Recently, the progression of global warming caused by excessive emission of carbon dioxide has become a serious problem. Moreover, it is necessary to reconsider the concept of power interchange in accordance with decrease of energy supply from a natural disaster. As one of the counterpart against these problems, decentralized autonomous energy system is receiving a lot of attention and it is signicant to establish this system. This research presents a mathematical programming model of distributed energy grid systems to evaluate the performance considering operation. Through some computational examples with several situations, the effectiveness and the potential of the proposed method are conrmed.

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In this study, we developed the long term planning model of the energy system in the local government in consideration of future uncertainty using two-stage stochastic programming. The maximal concern in the long term planning is that the future prediction of various social circumstances surrounding an energy system is difficult. We could obtain a long term roadmap in consideration of future uncertainty by using the two-stage stochastic programming. We examined the desirable energy supply system of Toyama from 2016 through 2050 using the developed model. As a result, small hydropower generation and geothermal power generation which are much available in Toyama prefecture were developed while consumption of fossil fuel and grid power was largely reduced. As for the power mix in last term, small hydropower was 32%, geothermal power generation was 34%, grid power from Hokuriku Denryoku was 29%, wind power generation was 4%.

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The concept of Safety2.0 offers a methodology which is suitable for the IoT era. It is a safety- oriented system, where all essential elements mutually exchange information and make system requirement without the existence of any controller. Based on the Safety2.0, a factory can produce high quality products which perform system specification safely by way of cooperation between each element. This paper will outline an example of an application of the Safety2.0 to train control system. Specifically, it will propose a new idea that each stakeholder harmoniously cooperates with each other and chooses a desirable solution for the attainment of safety throughout the system life-cycle.

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The Institute of Global Safety Promotion(IGSAP) was established on July 21, 2016 to meet the new demands related to granting the certification of personnel associated with safety. In this paper shows the recent activities of IGSAP, and relationship between IGSAP and Safety 2.0.

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From the view point of operational safety, an operational accident prevention at the engineering works using a construction machinery is one of the biggest problem. In this paper shows the outline of automatic stop paving machines depending on Safety2.0 concept which raises cooperation safety between machines and operators.

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The General outline of conformity assessment system on Safety 2.0 compliance marking program that enables collaboration safety among personnel, facilities, and its working environment, and that is promoted by the Institute of Global Safety Promotion(IGSAP).major contents addressed are;
 1) Background and outlines of the program
 2) Conformity assessment procedures
 3) Safety 2.0 Compliance Mark
 4) Findings and possible improvement for the future.

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This document describes the concept of “Field Innovation” is collectively changes created by the “Ba” (practical co-innovative scheme within space, organization, relationship) that is designed by professional group. Under the chain system of “R(Research)&D(Development)&D(Diffusion)”, it is evident that those simple models of open-innovation are not workable in order to obtain social leverage effects.

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In this ten years, new coming accelerators have taken important roll to develop startup communities by new supporting way for venture companies. Startup accelerators which support early stage venture companies through education, mentorship, and financing take part of important roll to develop commercial capacity for venture companies. We would like to describe what kind of programs are effective to promote innovation and the characteristics of Japanese accelerator.

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The innovation is being created thru dymnamics and momentum. Any coollaborations between academics and industries need to be produced efficient opportunities under widen and activated networking. Some practical cases will be introduces on a panel discussion.

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Remote sensing is expected as a technology that merges with recent artificial intelligence, big data, etc. and contributes to social development. In this paper, we explain the possibility of fusion of artificial intelli-gence, big data, etc. and the possibility of knowledge integration after arranging remotely sensing trends in re-cent years.

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The objective of this study is to introduce human living sphere around Huong river and urbanized area in Hue city, Vietnam. In low-lying coastal area like Hue city, it is assumed that the future flood damage is increase. Then, in this research, the feature of human living sphere of Hue city were introduced by using site photographs related with flood area.

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In this study, an advanced approach for the analysis of the spatial continuity of vegetation distributions is described through the statistical testing of the spatial features of a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from remotely sensed data. The new approach can achieve the detection of the spatial continuity of vegetation distributions in accordance with the types of land use: a completely urbanized area, a suburban area, a rural area, and a mountainous area. We also apply a hedonic approach with a Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to the analysis of the relationship between the assessed values of land and geographical information in order to estimate the importance of landscape factors. The detected areas seem to contribute to a substantial extent to predict the land prices of suburban areas.

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It is important that record accurately of existing state and restoration for the cultural asset like historical buildings or masonry of the castle prevention. Photogrammetry has been used for their works so far., then recent spatial information technology is effective for them. Especially, application of UAV is expected for the survey for masonry of Japanese castle.

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Flatfoot deformity has large individual differences. Therefore, surgeons have to choose appropriate surgery for individual patients. In this paper, we introduced a finite element (FE) model of flatfoot. This model was used to study the influence of different surgeries. We aimed at providing useful information to the surgeons through simulation prior to real surgery. This paper presented the modeling procedure and two examples of surgical simulation. Results validated the feasibility of using FE simulation to study the influence of different flatfoot surgeries.

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CS-MRI is a high-speed magnetic resonance imaging technique based on compressed sensing theory. It is known that the utilization of dictionary learning (DL) for CS-MRI leads to better image reconstruction results. In the optimization problem adopted by the DL-based CS-MRI, we must appropriately adjust the weights of data fidelity term and dictionary fidelity term, respectively, for each MR image. In this paper, we formulate a novel optimization problem where the above two fidelities are expressed as level set constraints, and solve this optimization problem by using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Numerical experiments show that the proposed method can reconstruct several MR images with high accuracy by using the same parameters.

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Interfaces for people with severe motor impairments that enables them to interact with a healthy person and manipulates a wheelchair by extending the body motion ability through information equipment recently has been put to practical use. It is well known that tongue and gaze motion can remain even in much serious stage. It is a problem to assure the electric insulation of the device in oral cavity. In this research, we propose a pointing I/F using the intraoral image taken by a small camera for the endoscope available at low cost. Since the individual movement of the tongue is largely different according to disease condition and it may changes over time, a learning signal to the CNN is dynamically generated and adapted to ensure the invariant operative output range.

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In this paper we aim to determine what factors encourage people to walk. Our approach consists of two phases. We firstly extracted factors affecting walking from questionnaires. We then analyzed the relationships between two factors, weather and weekday/holiday, and the number of the steps. The result showed there are several patterns and the findings would be beneficial for habituating people to walk.

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The U-Mart(UnReal Market as an Artificial Research Testbed) system which implements a complete market transaction mechanism. It consists of a market and a trading agent implemented on a computer, and can participate in trading as a trading agent either by human beings or computer programs. By using the U-Mart system, participants in trading gaming can experience basic market transactions experiences. Furthermore, it is also possible to conduct research in various financial fields using gaming and simulation. In this presentation, we will report case studies of education and research on simulation and gaming using U-Mart system.

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The social simulation platform SOARS -Spot Oriented Agent Role Simulator- can construct social simulation models with a simple personal computer operation without any programming experience and knowledge. We will introduce the results of research using SOARS, the educational activities of social simulation through workshops and symposiums, also introduce the features of SOARS.

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A variety of disaster education has been conducted. Previous studies posed some crucial contributing factors of disaster mitigation behavior by education, such as including experience, cultivating confidence that ones can do on their own, and relating with their living areas. This paper introduced Simulation & Gaming for community-based disaster mitigation as a tool to promote the factors above and demonstrated its further strengths.

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I have developed a data reduction system for points data. The system generates lightweight data by collecting images which are rendered the original point data from multiple directions. The data size of the generated data depends on two parameters: the window resolution at the rendering and the number of directions. Therefore, users can control the data size without the dependency of the complexity of the original data. I have implemented the prototype system and the effect of the two parameters was clarified. At the test, about 26 million point data was reduced to about 2% size with enough quality. The average PSNR value calculated from the images that were obtained from 26 directions rendering of the both data, the original and the reduced, was indicated over 70dB.

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Cultural heritage are irreplaceable treasures that people around the world deepen mutual understanding. Therefore, we need to preserve the cultural heritage to leave it in the future and to be able to experience present people. In order to address these issues, this research advance digital documentation and utilization of cultural heritage in Japan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan. I would like to report the results so far.

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This paper investigates global circulation and entanglement of designs in the textile printing in the 19th and 20th centuries. For this purpose, the paper focuses on “African prints” and Japanese stencils called katagami. While their original printing techniques are different from each other, these running patterns can serve as design sources for machine printing. While they are seemingly unrelated to each other, the investigation re-veals their global linkage, not only historical but also complex, in terms of printing designs.

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In recent years, as the Web technologies have matured in more and more countries, many cultural memory institutions, such as libraries, museums and cultural heritage organizations, all around the world begin to digitize their collections and provide them on the Internet with metadata in different languages. With the emergence of multilingual digitized collections, it opens up new opportunities but at the same time poses language barriers for accessing these large quantities of digitized collections. In this paper, we propose a method to find the identical Ukiyo-e prints between databases in different languages by exploiting semantic similarity of metadata across languages, in order to achieve our ultimate research goal that aims to provide multilingual access to multiple and diverse databases. We believe our proposed method could assist users in accessing Ukiyo-e databases regardless of languages.

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This paper introduces our approach in providing integrated access to multiple Japanese humanities databases. We propose a federated search system, which retrieves multiple databases in parallel through a single interface and provides real-time integration of retrieved results. Such a system along with a facility for cross-language search between English and Japanese is useful for users who are looking for materials in Japa-nese databases that are mostly available in Japanese, in which users who do not understand Japanese may not find the desired information. Using the proposed system, users get better results than the native database’s search interface. Even though the same content is being searched, the proposed system enhances the retrieved results. Users are provided with faceted navigations, unified search results of bilingual data holding basic in-formation, and links where the original records along with detailed information can be found. Faceted naviga-tions offer a new way of finding and browsing databases as an addition to the typical keyword searching and browsing. We applied the proposed system to the public versions of humanities databases of Art Research Cen-ter at Ritsumeikan University, which has been constructing digital archives of tangible or intangible heritages of Japanese arts and cultures.

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In this study, we attempted to set the target value of the number of steps of the subject based on statistical changes in the body composition index. For that purpose, we conducted two analyzes. In analysis 1, the target value of the number of steps of the subject was set on the premise that it would be a safe and convenient value. We also conducted a cross-sectional study between subjects, and it was found that the visceral fat level was statistically lower in the group with many records than in the group with only a few records. In Analysis 2, longitudinal study was conducted, and it became clear that those who are in the higher group statistically lower the visceral fat level after 4 months.

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In this study, we extract several in-week and -day patterns in ambulatory activity and body composition change from a big data of activity monitor and body composition meter records. For ambulatory activity, we apply a hierarchical topic model, composed of two layers of in-week patterns as super-topics and in-day patterns as sub-topics, to aggregated records of step counts. As a result, four diurnal activity patterns named commuting, morning, daytime and night activities are extracted as sub-topics and several combinations of these patterns within a week are extracted as super-topics. Using in-week and -day patterns extracted in the analysis, we discuss dynamical relation between ambulatory activity and body composition change.

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We developed an immersive visual analytics tool. In big data analysis, it is impartant to compare relations between variables from early stage of hypothesis building and to analyze by trial & error. In this paper, Subjects evaluated about degree of the correlation with three faces with X, Y, and Z axis. As a result, In the 3D environment, it was suggested that distinction for the recognition rate in correlation was stable as compared with 2D.

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This paper proposes the user interaction design for digital signage displaying health information. Recently, digital signage has gained popularity placed in public facilities or stores to show advertisements or guidance information. However, users become used to the displayed information followed by the time course and the interest and usage decreases. To solve this issue, this paper proposes a digital signage system which users can interact to obtain health information. There can be many interaction methods for the use and digital signage, although, for sustainable usability, useful interaction methods are limited to several methods not requiring many user actions. In this paper, three types of interaction design are introduced, depending on the target user behavior.

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In this research, we designed and implemented “lifestyle improvement program” by using activity meter and smartphone to improve health literacy of program users. Three elements of “exercise, meal, and sleep (rest) ” relating to lifestyle are raised through lecture and exercise, to raise awareness about health management and to support improvement and habit improvement of their own lifestyle.

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We TraFST will begin “Koto-tsukuri Certification Program (tentative name)” as well as World Heritage. There are similar programs in The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and Information Processing Society of Japan. The TraFST came up with the concept of “Koto-tsukuri” first in Japan, have been emphasizing its value and have been promoting. Therefore, the TraFST proposes “Koto-tsukuri Certification Program” to visualize activities of the TraFST and its member societies, to let them be public goods and to apply them to the college education. In this report, we will survey the tradition of Koto-tsukuri and the meaning of certification program.

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This paper describes the current activity of “Koto-tukuri Shihou Nintei Committee(Honorable Koto-tukuri recognition activity)”. Especially the working group discussion is introduced to enhance the future activities. Key items are as follows, 1) definition of honorable “Koto-tukuri” for recognition, 2) Who recognize ? and 3) How to recognize and select ?

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The TRAFST has formed the working party to formulate “Koto Tsukuri Shihou” since 2017, and they made a draft. In preparing drafts, they analyzed the Good Design Award and derived keywords such as “purpose” and “standpoint” as important concepts for designing the system. Using these concepts, they proposed a screening system consisting of three phases including an open type screening process.

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